Sky Sports’ Paul Merson on Chelsea’s transfer business: “It seems like agents are sending videos of a player, five-minute clips, and Chelsea have gone, ‘I’ll take him. Oh my God, how good is he?’ They’ve just got a YouTube team together. But it’s a million miles off.”
In his latest column for Sky Sports, Paul Merson delivers a scathing assessment of Chelsea’s recruitment and questions how they will get out of the mess they find themselves in.
Three years ago Chelsea were winning the Champions League and now they are getting thrashed by Arsenal. Not long ago it was Arsene Wenger’s 1000th game and Chelsea beat Arsenal 6-0. Look at it now.
If you were reading a book and this was the story you’d throw it in the sea halfway through. You’d go this couldn’t happen, it’s impossible. You can’t be that good, spend a billion pounds and be that bad. You’d say ‘this is so far-fetched. It’s unbearable’.